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Waad Alhumaidi Alrasasimah,1 Abdullah Alsabaani2 1Master of Public Health, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Khalid University, Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia; 2Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Waad Alhumaidi Alrasasimah, Email silent.507@hotmail.comBackground: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) requires effective self-care behaviors and social support to manage the condition and prevent complications. This study aimed to examine the influence of demographic characteristics and perceived social support on diabetes self-management behaviors in individuals with T2DM.Methods: An analytical cross-sectional design was employed to collect data from 300 T2DM patients using validated questionnaires from April to May 2023. Self-care behaviors were assessed using a Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities-Arabic (SDSCA-Arabic), while perceived social support was measured using a Diabetes Care Profile (DCP) using an Arabic Social Support subscale. Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and regression analysis were performed to examine the relationships and predictors of self-care behaviors.Results: Patients exhibited varying levels of self-care behaviors, with exercise and blood sugar testing being the most frequently reported activities. Additionally, the findings revealed that health education on self-examining regarding the feet, exercising, comorbidities, perceived social support, medical insurance, and gender were significant predictors of diabetes self-management behaviors. These factors collectively accounted for 21.2% of the variance in self-management behavior levels. Specifically, health education on self-examining regarding the feet (β = − 0.286, p = 0.001) and exercising (β = − 0.175, p = 0.001) showed a negative association, while perceived social support (β = 0.235, p = 0.001) demonstrated a positive association with self-management behaviors.Conclusion: Th

Mohammed S Alqahtani,1,2 Mohamed Abbas,3,4 Abdullah Alsabaani,5 Amjad Alqarni,1 Hussain M Almohiy,1 Entisar Alsawqaee,1 Raghad Alshahrani,1 Shahd Alshahrani1 1Radiological Sciences Department, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Khalid University, Abha, 61421, Saudi Arabia; 2BioImaging Unit, Space Research Centre, Michael Atiyah Building, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, U.K; 3Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Khalid University, Abha, 61421, Saudi Arabia; 4Computers and Communications Department, College of Engineering, Delta University for Science and Technology, Gamasa, 35712, Egypt; 5Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, 61421, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Mohamed Abbas, Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Khalid University, Abha, 61421, Saudi Arabia, Tel +966 17 241 1866, Fax +966 17 242 8184, Email mabas@kku.edu.saAbstract: Heart attacks, arrhythmias, and cardiomyopathy are all linked to the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which has been identified as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Nothing can be held accountable in the current state of affairs. Undiagnosed chronic systolic heart failure (CSHF) develops when the heart’s second half of the cardiac cycle does not function properly. As a result, the heart’s blood pumping function is interrupted. Stress-induced cardiomyopathy may be caused by a variety of factors inside the body (SICM). Cytokine storm and microvascular dysfunction are among the issues. There is inflammation in the heart muscle, which may lead to stress-induced cardiomyopathy. A major part of our study is going to be devoted to understanding the effects of coronavirus on the cardiovascular system and blood vessels. A lot of time and effort has been put into figuring out the health effects of radiation exposure. The heart and circulatory system are shown to be affected by the coronavirus in this rese

Abdullah A Alharbi,1 Khalid I Alqumaizi,2 Ibrahim Bin Hussain,3– 5 Abdullah Alsabaani,6 Amr Arkoubi,7 Abdulaziz Alkaabba,8 Arwa AlHazmi,5 Nasser S Alharbi,9 Hussam M Suhail,10 Abdullah K Alqumaizi11 1Family and Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Jazan University, Jazan City, Saudi Arabia; 2Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, AlMaarefa University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 3Department of Pediatrics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 4Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Al Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 5Southern Business Unit, Health Holding Company Project, Healthcare Transformation, Vision Realization Office, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 6Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia; 7Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 8Department of Family Medicine, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 9Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 10Faculty of Medicine, Jazan University, Jazan City, Saudi Arabia; 11College of Medicine, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Abdullah A Alharbi, Family and Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Jazan University, 12501 Dar Al-Nassr St., Abu Arish, Jazan, 45911, Saudi Arabia, Email aaalharbi@jazanu.edu.saBackground: This is the first descriptive and comparative study conducted of COVID-19 inpatients from multi-centers in the four administrative southern regions and proposed Southern Business Unit (Jazan, Najran, Bisha, and Aseer) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).Methods: Participants were 809 randomly selected patients admitted to the eight sampled hospitals with confirmed COVID-19 between March 2020 and February 2021. We assessed and compared socio-demographics, clin

Bayapa Reddy Narapureddy,1 Khursheed Muzammil,1 Mohammad Yahya Alshahrani,2 Ali G Alkhathami,2 Abdullah Alsabaani,3 Abdullah M AlShahrani,4 Adam Dawria,1 Nazim Nasir,4 Lingala Kalyan Viswanath Reddy,5 Mohammad Mahtab Alam6 1Department of Public Health, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Khamis Mushayt, King Khalid University, Abha, 62561, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 2Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Abha, King Khalid University, Abha, 9088, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 3Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia; 4Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Khamis Mushayt, King Khalid University, Abha, 62561, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 5Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Saudi Electronic University, Abha, 62561, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 6Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Applied Medical Science, Abha, King Khalid University, Abha, 62561, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Bayapa Reddy NarapureddyDepartment of Public Health, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Khamis Mushayt, King Khalid University, Abha, 62561, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaTel +966-55714527Email bapureddy@kku.edu.saIntroduction: COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020 by the World Health Organization. Control of COVID-19 depends on the potential vaccine and its successful delivery to a large portion of the population to develop herd immunity. All the governments have made a robust plan to distribute the vaccine to their people, but many countries could not achieve adequate vaccination coverage. Hence, this study explores people’s beliefs and barriers to vaccination and provides valuable inputs to the government to attain adequate vaccination.Objective: To know the knowledge level about the COVID-19 vaccine among the residents of KSA. To find out the various concerns (beliefs) about COVID-19 and its vaccine among the res

Ali Alsuheel Asseri,1 Ibrahim Alzaydani,2 Ahmed Al-Jarie,2 Ahmed Albishri,3 Abdullah Alsabaani,4 Mohammed Khamash Almaghrabi,5 Abdelwahid Saeed Ali5 1Department of Child Health, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia; 2Department of Pediatrics, Abha Maternity and Children Hospital, Abha, Saudi Arabia; 3Department of Pediatrics, Khamis Military Hospital, Ministry of Defense, Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia; 4Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia; 5Department of Microbiology and Clinical Parasitology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Ali Alsuheel AsseriDepartment of Child Health, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi ArabiaTel +966500186013Email alsoheel11@kku.edu.saBackground: COVID-19 was reported in several studies characterized by milder clinical course, benign disease, and peculiar epidemiologic patterns among pediatric patients compared to adults’ disease. However, other studies indicated that critical cases also exist and are associated with preexisting cardiopulmonary comorbidities and concurrent multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.Methods: The study period was six months, May–October 2020. Data on demographics, clinical manifestations, laboratory abnormalities were extracted from the patients’ hospital records. During the study period, 644 pediatric patients attended the hospital. They were all screened for SARS-CoV-2 using RT-PCR. Only the confirmed positive patients were included in the subsequent study analysis. They were hospitalized either in the general pediatric wards (GPW) or pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).Results: Out of the total patients screened, 79 (12.3%) children were confirmed to have COVID-19 infection. All the confirmed COVID-19 patients were either admitted to the general pediatric wards (58; 73.4%) or PICU (21; 26.6%). The admission diagno

Hussain Darraj,1 Mohammed Badedi,1 Kirsten R Poore,2 Abdulrahman Hummadi,1 Abdullah Khawaji,1 Yahia Solan,3 Ibrahim Zakri,1 Abdullah Sabai,1 Majid Darraj,4 Dhayf Alrahman Mutawwam,1 Mohammed Daghreeri,1 Safaa Sayed,1 Wael Alaallah,1 Abdulaziz Alfadhly,5 Abdullah Alsabaani61Jazan Health Affairs, Ministry of Health, Jazan, Saudi Arabia; 2Institute of Development Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; 3Medical Affairs, Jazan University Hospital, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia; 4Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia; 5Diabetic Center, Prince Mansour Military Hospital, Taif, Saudi Arabia; 6Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi ArabiaBackground: The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is predicted to be high in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), but the exact figure is not known in Jazan, Saudi Arabia. Emerging data suggests that VDD plays a role in glycemic control. The aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of VDD among T2DM patients and to investigate its association with patients’ characteristics and glycemic control in Jazan.Methods: This is an analytical cross-sectional study which recruited 309 patients with T2DM randomly from primary health care centers in Jazan. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to determine the VDD predictors and to examine the association of VDD and glycemic control.Results: The VDD prevalence was found to be 60.8% in patients with T2DM. Age, gender, diabetic retinopathy (DR), dyslipidemia, glycemic control, and obesity were significantly associated with VDD, and all except obesity were independent predictors of VDD. There was a significant negative correlation between 25-hydroxyvitamin D and HbA1c. VDD was a significant independent predictor of poor glycemic control after adjustment for hypertension, DR, diabetic neuropathy, type of diabetes

Abdulaziz Darraj,1 Mohamed Salih Mahfouz,2 Abdullah Alsabaani,3 Mubarack Sani,2 Anwar Alameer1 1Jazan Health Affairs, Ministry of Health, Jazan, Saudi Arabia; 2Family and Community Medicine Department, College of Medicine, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia; 3Family and Community Medicine Department, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia Background: Poor sleep quality is common among patients with diabetes. It is associated with negative physical, psychological, and functional consequences. However, the implicated risk factors of poor sleep quality remain uncertain.Objectives: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of poor sleep quality among patients with diabetes and to investigate the factors associated with the poor sleep quality.Patients and methods: An analytical cross-sectional study of 307 diabetic patients in Jazan, Saudi Arabia was conducted in 2018. A multistage cluster random sampling was used to select the study participants. Sleep quality was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Data on patient’s characteristics were gathered via patients’ interviews, and medical data were collected based on the patients’ files. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify the predictors of poor sleep quality.Results: The mean score of PSQI was 5.29±2.73. The prevalence of poor sleep quality was 55.4% (95% CI 49.7–60.8). Sociodemographic and clinical factors were significantly associated with poor sleep quality, such as being elderly, female, illiterate, smoker, complications of diabetes, comorbidity, or psychological symptoms. However, female gender was the strongest predictor of reporting poor quality of sleep, OR= 3.69, 95% CI 1.65–8.28 (P<0.001).Conclusion: Poor sleep quality among diabetic patients is a prevalent health problem. Many factors can affect sleep quality. Health care providers may consider routine screening for and address sl